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Grade 3 · Stretch challenge · 10 questions · Version PG-KFEIQY-1LFG

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1.What type of boundary forms when plates move apart?
2.Why does salt lower water's freezing point?
3.What is the pH of a neutral solution?
4.What transfers traits from parents to offspring?
5.How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?
6.Which blood cells fight infection?
7.Which layer of Earth is liquid iron and nickel?
8.What is the role of chlorophyll?
9.What is the difference between weather and climate?
10.What is density?

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  1. What type of boundary forms when plates move apart?Divergent boundary
  2. Why does salt lower water's freezing point?It disrupts ice crystal formation
  3. What is the pH of a neutral solution?7
  4. What transfers traits from parents to offspring?Genes
  5. How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?They absorb and re-emit infrared energy
  6. Which blood cells fight infection?White blood cells
  7. Which layer of Earth is liquid iron and nickel?Outer core
  8. What is the role of chlorophyll?Absorb light for photosynthesis
  9. What is the difference between weather and climate?Weather is short-term; climate is long-term patterns
  10. What is density?Mass per unit volume

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